ping6

Sends ICMPv6 echo messages to a user-specified IPv6 address
Note

Note

This command and its syntax is common to both the User Executable and Privilege Executable configuration modes.

Supported on the following devices:

Syntax

ping6 <IPv6/HOSTNAME> {<INTF-NAME>} {(count <1-10000>|size <1-64000>)}

Parameters

ping6 <IPv6/HOSTNAME> {<INTF-NAME>} {(count <1-10000>|size <1-64000>)}
<IPv6/HOSTNAME> Specify the destination IPv6 address or hostname.
<INTF-NAME> Specify the interface name for link local/broadcast address
count <1-10000> Optional. Sets the pings to the specified IPv6 destination
  • <1-10000> – Specify a value from 1 - 10000. The default is 5.
size <1-64000> Optional. Sets the IPv6 ping payload size in bytes
  • <1-64000> – Specify the ping payload size from 1 - 64000. The default is 100 bytes.

Usage Guidelines

To configure a device‘s IPv6 address, in the VLAN interface configuration mode, use the ipv6 > address <IPv6-ADDRESS> command. After configuring the IPv6 address, use the ipv6 > enable command to enable IPv6. For more information, see ipv6 (profile config mode).

Examples

nx9500-6C8809(config-device-00-23-68-1B-35-96-if-ge4)#show ipv6 interface brief
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INTERFACE  IPV6 MODE  IPV6-ADDRESS/MASK               TYPE         STATUS  PROTOCOL
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
vlan1       True      fe80::223:68ff:fe88:da7/64     Link-Local       UP      up
vlan1       True      2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1/64  Global-Permanent   UP      up
vlan2       False     UNASSIGNED                       None           UP      up
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nx9500-6C8809(config-device-00-23-68-1B-35-96-if-ge4)#
nx9500-6C8809>ping6 2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1 count 6
PING 2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1(2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1) 100 data bytes
108 bytes from 2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.401 ms
108 bytes from 2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.311 ms
108 bytes from 2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.300 ms
108 bytes from 2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.309 ms
108 bytes from 2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.299 ms
108 bytes from 2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1: icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.313 ms

--- 2001:10:10:10:10:10:10:1 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 6999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.299/0.318/0.401/0.031 ms
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